Winifred Holtby Quotes
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I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.
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I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
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It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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My goal is I want to create the 20-20-20 club: 20 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 20 batted balls.
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The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).
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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
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If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
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I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
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Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'
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The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.
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64: Often it is means that justify ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Carol Guess's poems are sexy, intuitive, angry, and hopeful. These lyrical narratives measure the impossibly small distance between love and fear. They are a reminder that we're all vulnerable little vessels filled by the people who can break us.
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I want to be an independent woman who falls in love, finds a great partner for her lifetime, has kids and kind of does it all. I'd like to have it all.
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Girlhood ... is the intellectual phase of a woman's life, that time when, unencumbered by societal expectations or hormonal rages, one may pursue any curiosity from the mysteries of the yo-yo to the meaning of infinity. These two particular pursuits were where I left off in the fifth grade when I discovered a hair growing in the wrong place and all hell broke loose.
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“The distance between one historical period and another is a very small step in comparison to the huge metaphysical gap we must leap to understand the perspective of another person in any time or place.”
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What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.
